# Sustainable Finance: Director Whelan's Interview with Bloomberg

Center for Sustainable Business

May 17, 2017 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Bloomberg.JPG?itok=xP5X4-L7) Excerpt: "companies with good sustainability performance tend to have lower risk and thus lower cost of capital," [**Tensie Whelan**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business/who-we-are/csb-leadership), director of the [Center for Sustainable Business](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business) at NYU Stern School of Business, said May 1. "It is a win-win — it rewards better sustainability performance by companies, reduces risk for lenders, and provides value to society."

Read the entire Bloomberg Brief [here](https://newsletters.briefs.bloomberg.com/document/oiH6Xlj8UkoRds0FS37tPQ--_9ez27rf0ikvz4g7up7/front).